The pandemic labor market through the eyes of Philly’s immigrant restaurant workers
Members of El Comité de Trabajadorxs Inmigrantes featured on WHYY discussing organizing for better working conditions during the pandemic. Read more on WHYY.
El Comité de Trabajadorxs hosts back to school vaccine event, “Healing Builds Community”
El Comité de Trabajadorxs hosted a back to school vaccine event called “Healing Builds Community” that safely gathered over 150 community members, shared information and resources, held a know your rights training, vaccinated 17 people and made over 20 appointments. The event had hot food and take-home produce thanks to Everybody Eats Philly. El Comite […]
Reimagining Philadelphia Series: Building Resilience Before and After the Election
The 2020 election is only a few weeks away, and we are all working hard to mobilize around voting Trump out of office, yet there are many real threats to our democracy. What are some of the potential scenarios that might happen on November 3rd and beyond? How can we be resilient in these stressful […]
Reimagining Philadelphia Series – Solidarity with Essential Workers
Reimagining Philadelphia: Building Power with 215 People’s Alliance Saturday Sept. 19 11:00 AM Join us for the next meeting of online conversations on how we can organize and build power during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. In this meeting we’ll focus on how we can be in solidarity with essential workers, as they provide critical services during […]
Reimagining Philadelphia: A New Vision for Volunteering and Service
Join Aug. 29 us for the next meeting a series of online conversations on how we can organize and build power during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Topic: A new vision for volunteering and service August 29 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM As a response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdowns, […]
Reimagining Philadelphia: Housing is a Human Right
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed a system that promotes profits over people. We need to build a movement that demands transformative changes that empowers working people and marginalized communities, while challenging the power of corporations and the rich. Now is our time to reimagine a transformative city. Saturday August 8th at 11:00 AM Join […]
Reimagining Philadelphia: What do we mean by defund the police?
Join us for the next meeting in our series of online conversations on how we can organize and build power during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We’ll discuss the recent efforts to defund the police, the work toward police free schools, and our vision for safe communities. July 18th 11:00 – 12:30 – Register here. […]
Saturday June 27: Protecting Our Democracy – Part of the Reimagining Philadelphia Series
Join us for the second meeting in a series of online conversations on how we can organize and build power during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. June 27th 11:00 AM on ZOOM – REGISTER HERE In this meeting we’ll focus on elections. We’ll collectively reflect on the recent primary election during the COVID pandemic and […]
Launching Reimagining Philadelphia: Building Power with 215 People’s Alliance
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed a system that promotes profits over people. We need to build a movement that demands transformative changes that empowers working people and marginalized communities, while challenging the power of corporations and the rich. Now is our time to reimagine a transformative city. REGISTER HERE for June 6th 1:00 PM […]
COVID-19 and the Black Community: Why Philly Needs a Black Stimulus
On June 2, 2:00 pm, 215 People’s Alliance, the Office of Councilmember Brooks and WURD cohost COVID-19 & the Black Community: Why Philly Needs a Black Stimulus. In Philly, the poorest big city in the country, communities of color were already faced with unequal access to healthcare, a broken social safety net, and one of […]